Christine Boone
Wait...what IS a song‽‽
It's obvious...right? A song is a short piece of music, usually with lyrics. But the law makes it more complicated. I've written about a...
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Christine Boone
May 254 min read
Gal Godot's sex tape, Samsung moon photos, and the Beatles' new single
Is there a hard line between real and fake? I'm a real person. My friend Jenny is a real person, too, even though a part of her elbow is...
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Christine Boone
Apr 262 min read
Trailerization - a New Type of Remix
Last year, a friend sent me this New York Times article by Eric Ducker about "trailerization" (check it out - it's an audio article, so...
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Christine Boone
Feb 162 min read
WRITE MORE
My Masters and PhD advisor, Jim Buhler, did a lot of great things for me when I was working with him. Despite the fact that he oversaw my...
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Christine Boone
Jan 13 min read
THIS IMAGE IS LEGAL
Happy New Year! As you nurse your hangover, check out this perfectly legal image below. It's a still from Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon...
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Christine Boone
Oct 30, 20234 min read
The Beatles, Necromusica, and Artificial Intelligence (oh, my!)
I grew up listening to the Beatles, thanks mostly to my dad, although I had surpassed him in my degree of fandom by the time I entered...
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Christine Boone
Sep 19, 20233 min read
A New Type of Cover?
Almost a year ago, a student of mine asked if I had heard David Guetta and Bebe Rexha's new remix of a '90s song. Well, I didn't know who...
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Christine Boone
May 27, 20233 min read
New Publication - Mashups & Artificial Intelligence
I was able say that my work anticipated this New Yorker article by Jaron Lanier - whoa! I've read two of his books, and find his writing...
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Christine Boone
May 1, 20231 min read
SMT-V!
(I like to parse it as S-MTV, because I think I'm funny.) This is a publication announcement! A couple of years ago, someone suggested...
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Christine Boone
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Justice for John Fogerty!
(Did you even know that he was experiencing injustice?) I don't know if anyone was following this story as closely as I was (except for...
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Christine Boone
Jun 27, 20222 min read
<Puke> Long Furby
It's quite unfortunate, but I feel as though I must write about Long Furby. These very strange suggested items from Etsy appeared on my...
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Christine Boone
Feb 19, 20221 min read
Low, low, shorty got, shorty got low...
I know, I'm taking a break from this blog. But then I heard this song on TikTok that made me laugh out loud, and I just have to share it...
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Christine Boone
Jan 7, 20221 min read
Gone Fishin'
I haven't gone fishin'. But I have gone publishin', which explains my absence from this blog as of late. I wrote a chapter for this book,...
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Christine Boone
Aug 14, 20212 min read
What is Vank Walen??
...It's Hank Williams + Van Halen, of course! Anyone who has read my work or seen any of my conference presentations knows that I love...
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Christine Boone
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Destruction as Creation
I remember seeing this video on YouTube maybe ten years ago (it has since been taken down and re-posted), and it really fascinated me....
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Christine Boone
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Hip to be the Sandman
A couple of weeks ago, a friend posted this fantastic genre-clashing mashup on social media: It's by prolific mashup artist Bill...
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Christine Boone
Dec 29, 20202 min read
Fifty Years of Songs!
I've decided not to write about DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" this year, but instead to write about a (mashup? medley?) that he...
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Christine Boone
Nov 19, 20201 min read
New WAP Symphony‽‽
A student recently brought this mashup by Nate Ramsey to my attention: Of course, this is the mashup of the Cardi B/Megan Thee Stallion...
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Christine Boone
Oct 7, 20203 min read
Virtual Conference
Last weekend I presented at my first virtual conference. It had its positives and its negatives. It was definitely the least nervous I...
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Christine Boone
Jul 10, 20203 min read
Not So Simple A + B!
When I taught piano lessons (circa 2005?), I was surprised to see "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. in one of my students' piano books. I started...
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